17/12/2020 – NTHS&Tech OSA

December 2020 News

Posted on 17/12/202018/12/2020 by Tim Oxley

At our AGM in September, Geoff Dodge was elected President. Geoff says, “I was at Hobart Technical High School from 1957 until 1961 and was in the last Matriculation class at the school. In fact, the school was renamed New Town High School the year after I left. I spent Continue Reading

A Walk Down Memory Lane

Posted on 17/12/202017/12/2020 by Ian Peppiatt

It’s at this point that we’d normally be publishing a story about an “old boy” of the School who has gone on to make a significant contribution in their after school years, perhaps a contribution that their years at school may have mapped for them. This time around however, time has beaten me Continue Reading

Annual Debate wins support!

Posted on 17/12/202015/02/2021 by Tim Oxley

Readers may remember the Great Debate held in our Centenary Year. Three schoolboys took on three Supreme Court judges to debate the merits (or otherwise) of lowering the voting age to 16. The debate was fierce and very entertaining. The look on Justice Estcourt’s face was priceless when he realised Continue Reading

Garden Update – December

Posted on 17/12/202017/12/2020 by Tim Oxley

Planting, watering and weeding have been the order of the day at the Urban Food Project at St John’s Avenue. Some more Old Scholars have been joining regulars Rick Cazaly, Wayne Fletcher and John Lennard, under the very experience eye of garden guru David Stephen. Dr Mike Hodgson kindly donated Continue Reading

Myths and Legends

A Confession

My first contact with the school was in 1942 when the Junior Technical School was in Bathurst Street and I was a student studying Chemistry at University. Our laboratory was on the second floor immediately above the broad driveway on which the school assemblies were held. The boys were tightly packed into the limited space available and we looked down upon them, as it were, from a great height. We used to sprinkle them with a fine spray of water blown from apparatus called wash bottles. They would look up at us in frustrated desperation. They could do nothing about it. They were too crowded to be able to move aside and, under the discipline of the school, unable to create a disturbance. They were sitting ducks. The university students very unfairly took advantage of the situation. But if looks could kill, we would have been consigned to everlasting perdition.

Twenty-four years later I re-appeared on the scene as Headmaster. It is remarkable how greatly perspectives can change in twenty-four years.

Des Mahoney

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